When was the last time you listened to a vinyl record on your system?

Downloads are taking off and it has been 25 years since CD was launched, yet audiophile demand for turntables and vinyl continues unabated. When did you last spin a record?

When was the last time you listened to a vinyl record on your system?
Today
40% (260 votes)
Within the last week
26% (170 votes)
Within the last two weeks
4% (27 votes)
Within the last month
3% (19 votes)
Within the last couple of months
3% (20 votes)
Months ago
3% (17 votes)
A year or more
16% (106 votes)
Never
4% (28 votes)
Total votes: 647

COMMENTS
Mark Knogge's picture

I listen to records almost daily.

Steve C's picture

gave away my B&O turntable to a vinyl loving friend in 1992

David Allcock's picture

I generally spin vinyl whenever I'm listening to my system, at some point. I still keep asking myself why spend money on either SACD or DVD-Audio today when there is still great vinyl out there? I'd suggest that you'll be asking this question 10 years from now when the record companies decide they want to sell us our music collection again on another format. The recent advances in CD playback have been very welcome (better CD players and the new breed of outboard upsamplers) but vinyl will be king in my system for the forseeable future.

dickson@bigpond.net.au's picture

love vinyl

Unremorsefully, Geo McCarthy's picture

What is Truth ? as reported from one famous tribunal . . . but I would venture that the translation involved in A-to-D & back again is never going to be perfect. So some of us still spin the old scratchy LPs with pleasure. Until neural audio implants arrive this peculiar behavior will linger, at least among the atavists and troglodytes of an earlier era, lurking in the underbrush.

Claude Whiting's picture

My turntable cover has become an extra shelf for my Audio Alchemy D/A converter and Theta TLC. I do fire it up every other year just to see if it still works. I really don't know why I haven't removed it.

David Colic's picture

vinyl sounds BETTER than CD

Terry Maton, London, England's picture

BSV(Black Scratchy Vinyl) is my primary source, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Carsten Lawrenz's picture

Just got a turntable for my new two channel system. I never knew vinyl could be this good!

bill's picture

I probably listen to vinyl about 75% of the time.

Daniel A.  Jimenez's picture

I like to play records almost every day,and I can't live with out it, the music is on it, the emotion, the love, is on the grove. No digital device is able to do the same effect that I Have right now. 0101000111001.

John Brown's picture

Vinyl stills sounds better, although my dvd player is a slight improvement for cd sound.

Gene Harrington's picture

Best sounding format ever?

Harry Hasbun's picture

Nothing like Vinyl! Sorry SACD DVD-A Vinyl is all of it.

The anti-vinyl, Chicago's picture

What vinyl? Are you talking about the dashboard on my Nissan?

Floyd Freeman-Chicago's picture

I listen to 50% vinyl and 50% cd.

Glenn G.  Higley's picture

Lost my turntable in a burglary 2 years ago but plan to replace it this year. I've missed my vinyl so much.

Bob Vosteen's picture

It's a gas to play a record for someone who hasn't heard one in many years.

Barry Klawans's picture

I have nearly 1,000 albums, many of which have never been release on CD. I'll never get rid of my turntable.

Mike Malinowski's picture

I am a vinyl addict. I don

Jeff Bergman, NY's picture

I usually listen to atleast one record per week. There is something about the process of taking the record sleeve out of the album jacket, the record out of the sleeve, the cleaning the record, the cleaning the stylus and then waiting for the stylus to touch the groove. Maybe its a built up anticipation - but probably its the glorious sound that comes from a good record that it is in very good condition.

T McGhee's picture

Hard to find turntables that cost a fortune

Gary N Dolin's picture

I have over 300 vinyl record in my collection. These represent my favorite music for the years 1955 to 1985; music which is invested with the memories and emotions of my youth.

Bob Taylor's picture

I still love many of my vinyl records. But I bought a Wadia CD player a year ago and it sounds better played into the amplifier. To use my Sota turntable I have to connect the pramp which is a lot of trouble going thru the connection process.

Thom Chrastka's picture

I listen to an even mixture of vinyl and CD. My roommate owns a Linn and beats the daylights out of my AR table. I don't mind. I don't think I'll ever stop listening to vinyl. I'm 25 and my roomate's 21. There's still a place for vinyl in the world!

Tim's picture

Love that vinyl sound!

Alex's picture

Well, my dad picked up a nice LINN player... cant help but check out his old Doors records...

dave f's picture

I wish I had more time to spin more of them..soooo much better than the cd format.

Doug McCall's picture

The only reason I ever subject myself to the dreaded "ritual of the vinyl" is to hear music that I have been unable to purchase on CD. Take that, Mikey!

Marc Loiselle's picture

More enjoyable than CD. It is too bad that the supply of new records is so low.

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